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Susanna Wesley
1669 – 1742 · England
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)
In the Life of the Saints
The mother of nineteen children, including John and Charles Wesley, Susanna ran a rigorous school in her own home and held Sunday evening devotions so popular with neighbors that hundreds came to hear her teach. Her influence on her sons is often credited as a root of the Methodist movement.
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